The History Democrats fail to remember.

This is the accurate history that Democrats fail to remember. I did an article about this many years ago and I was unable to find it so I am using
the writing from two recent articles that reflect history correctly. What I find amusing is when I published my first article about this I actually
had Democrats claim that the Republican and Democratic party switched. I about fell out of my chair. My response was...I asked my grandmother if she
remembered or realized the Democrat and Republican parties switched. She said she was unaware of this event but would greatly appreciate a phone call
the next time it happens so she can re-designate her party affiliation.
Well here is the history that every Democrat needs to know when claiming that Republicans are racist. Once and for all it would be nice to put this
crap to bed but I know it will not.

* The number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were six from 1840 through 1860.

* The number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves. There were seven from 1800 through 1861

* The number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject. There were 20, from 1868 through
1948.

* "Jim Crow" as in "Jim Crow laws and the role Democrats played in creating them. These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by
Democrats in that pesky 52-year part of the DNC's missing years. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, rest rooms
and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches). The reason Rosa Parks became famous is that she sat in the "whites only"
front section of a bus, the "whites only" designation the direct result of Democrats.

* The formation of the Ku Klux Klan, which, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, became "a military force serving the interests of
the Democratic Party." Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease's description of the Klan as the "terrorist
arm of the Democratic Party."

* Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The 13th banned slavery. The 14th effectively overturned the infamous 1857
Dred Scott decision (made by Democratic pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The
15th gave black Americans the right to vote.

* Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was passed by the Republican Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, who had been a
Democrat before joining Lincoln's ticket in 1864. The law was designed to provide blacks with the right to own private property, sign contracts, sue
and serve as witnesses in a legal proceeding.

* Democrats' opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It was passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. The
law prohibited racial discrimination in public places and public accommodations.

* Democrats' 1904 platform, which devotes a section to "Sectional and Racial Agitation," claiming the GOP's protests against segregation and the
denial of voting rights to blacks sought to "revive the dead and hateful race and sectional animosities in any part of our common country," which in
turn "means confusion, distraction of business, and the reopening of wounds now happily healed."

* Four Democratic platforms, 1908-20, that are silent on blacks, segregation, lynching and voting rights as racial problems in the country mount. By
contrast the GOP platforms of those years specifically address "Rights of the Negro" (1908), oppose lynching (in 1912, 1920, 1924, and 1928) and, as
the New Deal kicks in, speak out about the dangers of making blacks "wards of the state."

* Democratic Convention of 1924, known to history as the "Klanbake." The 103-ballot convention was held in Madison Square Garden. Hundreds of
delegates were members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan so powerful that a plank condemning Klan violence was defeated outright. To celebrate, the Klan
staged a rally with 10,000 hooded Klansmen in a field in New Jersey directly across the Hudson from the site of the convention. Attended by hundreds
of cheering convention delegates, the rally featured burning crosses and calls for violence against African-Americans and Catholics.

* Democrats segregated the federal government, at the direction of President Woodrow Wilson upon taking office in 1913. There \is a reference to the
fact that President Harry Truman integrated the military after World War II.

* Democrats created the Federal Reserve Board, passed labor and child welfare laws, and created Social Security with Wilson's New Freedom and FDR's
New Deal. There is no mention that these programs were created as the result of an agreement to ignore segregation and the lynching of blacks. Neither
is there a reference to the thousands of local officials, state legislators, state governors, U.S. congressmen and U.S. senators who were elected as
supporters of slavery and then segregation between 1800 and 1965. Nor is there reference to the deal with the devil that left segregation and lynching
as a way of life in return for election support for three post-Civil War Democratic presidents, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin
Roosevelt

* Three-fourths of the opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Bill in the U.S. House came from Democrats, or that 80% of the "nay" vote in the Senate
came from Democrats. Certainly there is no reference to the fact that the opposition included future Democratic Senate leader Robert Byrd of West
Virginia (a former Klan member) and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Sr., father of Vice President Al Gore.

* In Birmingham, Ala., Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor, who infamously unleashed dogs and fire hoses on civil rights protestors, was in
fact--yes indeed--a member of both the Democratic National Committee and the Ku Klux Klan.

* The fact that Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first to initiate the legislation which finally passed and was enacted under
Democrat Presidents JFK and LBJ), the party of the left has somehow hoodwinked much of the black community into thinking they are its savior. In fact
until the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,

* Martin Luther King was a Republican, re-registering as a Democrat as part of the negotiations, and so were most blacks Republicans (the party of
Abraham Lincoln) until that time. Facts like these are part of the reason the Progressives consistently fight to re-write and edit the history that is
taught and skew media productions.

* Democrats will likely say they led the fight for civil rights throughout the years, though a cursory review of the party will prove this assertion
wrong. For instance, this was the party that established the Ku Klux Klan as its enforcement arm. Powerful Democrat politicians have appointed
Klansmen to high-ranking positions in American government for a century, yet have somehow convinced the vast majority of blacks that Republicans are
the bad guys! The KKK was used to intimidate voters, black and white, into voting Democrat – or not voting at all. Through violence, property
damage, rape, and murder, Democrats were able to secure a huge majority of the black vote comprised of those afraid to cast an alternate ballot.
Disgustingly, they have somehow been able to maintain that death-grip on the African-American community to this day.
* The GOP, which was the first to name a black Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of State, must defend itself against accusations based purely in
the imagination of Democrats, often with figurative or literal blood on their own hands.

This last part is a very powerful and well written truth. I lived in Birmingham Alabama in 1965. I witnessed racism first hand.

Written by Louis DeBroux

For too long Americans, ignorant of history, have bought into this liberal libel, and Republicans, to their everlasting shame; have been relatively
spineless in combating these nefarious lies. Republicans hold the moral high ground here. Democrats on the other hand, taking a break from their
absolute fealty to the false doctrine of separation of church and state, run to the black churches just before every election to plant fear into their
hearts of Republicans dragging them back to the days of slavery. On the bright side, as hypocritical as it is, every minute Democrats spend in a black
church is a minute they are not shoveling hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of Planned Parenthood, funding the slaughter of
millions of unborn black children.
The hypocrisy truly is stunning. Democrats pretend to be the protectorate for poor blacks who would otherwise become victims from the scheming, evil,
white Republicans. They usurp the mantel of the civil rights movement, when the truth is nothing close. The Prevaricator-in-Chief, His Royal Lie-ness
Barack Obama, famously claimed that his very conception was a result of the love affair between his father and mother during the civil rights march on
Selma, Alabama in 1965. The problem? Obama was born in 1961, four years before that historic event. You know who DID join a civil rights march? That
would be Mitt Romney’s father, Governor George Romney, who led a procession of 10,000 marchers in Detroit two days after Bloody Sunday in a show of
solidarity with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the marchers at Selma.

For a list of prominent politicians NOT supportive of civil rights for black Americans, look no further than the Democrat Party. The most vocal
opponents of the Civil Rights Act were all Democrats, including Albert Gore, Sr., father of former Vice President and 2000 Democrat presidential
nominee Al Gore, and the Methuselah of the Senate, former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, former “Kleagle” and “Grand Cyclops” of the Ku
Klux Klan, who personally spoke for an astonishing fourteen hours straight in the Senate in an attempt to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
This was the same Robert Byrd that called MLK a “troublemaker” and a “coward,” and the same Byrd who vociferously opposed integrating the
military, proclaiming he would “…rather die a thousand times and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt, never to rise again, than see this beloved
land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds…”

It was Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace who said in his inaugural speech, “I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet
of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” He would attempt to keep his promise by physically blocking the
desegregation of Alabama schools. He would later run for president on the American Independent Party ticket, seeing as how the racist Democrat Party
was still not quite racist enough for him.

And what about the KKK? Is it fair to tie the racist Klan to the Democrat Party? Why yes, yes it is. As historian Bruce Bartlett reveals, during an
1872 Congressional investigation, Democrats admitted to forming the Ku Klux Klan as a way to stop the growth of the Republican Party. He continues,
“As PBS’s ‘American Experience’ notes, ‘In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed
organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power. The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was
formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865.”

It is literally impossible to cover all of the racist history of the Democrat Party in this confined space, but even a cursory review tells the story.
Jim Crow laws? Passed by Democrats. Harry Truman, member of the Kansas City chapter of the KKK? Democrat. Fugitive slave laws which returned runaway
slaves to their owners? Democrats. 1856 Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case, legally defining blacks as the property of their masters? A 7-2
decision, written by Chief Justice Roger Taney, a Democrat, with every concurring vote cast by a Democrat. The two opposing? One Republican and one
Whig (a portion of which party had split to form the Republican Party). Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the slavery-limiting
Missouri Compromise? That would be, you guessed it, Democrats.

Now, to be fair, the extensive proof of deeply-held racism by the Democrat Party is not de facto proof that the Republican Party is not itself full of
racists. So once again, let’s take a look at the facts:

The Republican Party was formed in 1854 for the specific purpose of ending slavery. Less than a decade later, the first Republican president, Abraham
Lincoln, would issue the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the Southern states, and see the blood of hundreds of thousands shed to
insure that victory. In 1865, the 13th Amendment formally and legally freeing the slaves was passed with every Republican in the House and Senate
voting in favor, but only 19 Democrats supporting it (less than one quarter). It was Republicans, against vicious Democrat opposition, that passed the
14th Amendment (establishing citizenship for former black slaves), and the 15th Amendment (granting blacks the right to vote). It was Republicans who
first passed Civil Rights Acts (in 1866 and in 1875), which would be rescinded by Democrats with the passage of the Repeal Act of 1894. A little over
half a century later, it would be Republicans that would push through the Civil Rights Acts again, with 80% of Republicans voting for the 1964 law
compared to only 64% of Democrats.

Disingenuous Democrats unbelievably claim the racists in the Democrat Party fled to the Republican Party in recent years, but that doesn’t come
close to passing the smell test. For one, why would racist Democrats flee to the party that formed to end slavery, and which had only recently voted
in overwhelming numbers to pass laws protecting blacks from this very racist ideology? Why would they flee to the party that is trying to end the
holocaust of abortion, which kills off about half of all black babies? Why flee to the party that fights for educational choice so that poor blacks
aren’t forced to send their kids to failing schools?

Notoriously corrupt Obama Attorney General Eric Holder famously claimed that America is a “nation of cowards” when it comes to talking about race.
To that I’d simply reply, “Whenever you’re ready, dear.”

SnF op, good thread. Unfortunately, your target audience ( democrats) won't even read this, or will simply dismiss it out of hand, without even
reading or checking the facts themselves, as is known to many, they won't even consider any information that doesn't fit into their very narrow and
limited world view, of course that is also not to mention they know they are right about everything, despite historical and imperical evidence to the
contrary.

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